Ila Beatrice (Bea) Withrow, 88, of Sweet Home died Oct. 18, 2008 at Lebanon Community Hospital.
She was born June 7, 1920 in Atoka, Okla., the daughter of John and Callie (Woffard) Williams.
She earned her teaching certificate and taught school in Oklahoma. She married her lifelong friend and sweetheart, Gilbert Withrow, in 1946.
In 1947 they moved to Oregon where she taught elementary school. In 1969 she graduated from Oregon State University with a…